Chapter 11

1A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and
measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.
2Leave
out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it
has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for
forty-two months.
3I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will
prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before
the Lord of the earth.
5If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out
of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he
must be killed in this way.
6These have the power to shut up the sky,
that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over
the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every
plague, as often as they desire.
7When they have finished their
testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them,
and overcome them, and kill them.
8Their dead bodies will be in the
street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where
also their Lord was crucified.
9From among the peoples, tribes,
languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a
half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
10Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad.
They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented
those who dwell on the earth.
11After the three and a half days, the
breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet.
Great fear fell on those who saw them.
12I heard a loud voice from heaven
saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and
their enemies saw them.
13In that day there was a great earthquake, and a
tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake,
and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14The
second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.

15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying,
“The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his
Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

16The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God’s throne,
fell on their faces and worshiped God,
17saying: “We give you thanks,
Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was358358TR adds “and who is
coming”; because you have taken your great power, and reigned.
18The
nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be
judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as
to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and
to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

19God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s
covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake,
and great hail followed.